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Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies.

Which languages do you speak?

What's your overall background? The general field you work in or are studying, e.g. computer science, physics, artificial intelligence, control theory...

Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so?

Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any. Includes any community-bonding, mentor experience or application, not necessarily accepted. We use this subquestion to identify which students are unfamiliar with how the program goes, providing further support. It has no negative impact on your rating!

Please describe your experience with being in a development team. Do you have experience working with open source or free projects?

Please describe the biggest project you have written code for and what you learned by doing so. Also, describe your role in that project over time.

Please state the commits and patches you already contributed to Octave. This question (one of the most important parts by the way) is the only part of your application our wiki admins will edit for you even after the application deadline. Code sometimes speaks louder than many words do.

Please describe (in short) your experience with the following tools: We only use this question to determine where you need guidance, not for rating! We by no means expect you to be familiar with all of these and you won't necessarily need all of them while working with us.

IRC and mailing lists

Mercurial or other source code management systems

Mediawiki or other wiki software

make, gcc, gdb or other development tools

What will make you actively stay in our community after this GSoC is over? You can also tell us after applications close and we'll happily try to fulfill :-)

What was the first question concerning Octave you could not find an answer to rather quickly? Of course more than one question can be stated. We try to improve based on this each year! Includes learning how to use it, code, website, GSoC application, …

If yes, what task did you choose? Please describe what part of it you especially want to focus on if you can already provide this information. Please also wiki-link the page for your elaborated proposal here.

Please provide a rough estimated timeline for your work on the task. This should include the GSoC midterms and personal commitments like exams or vacation ("non-coding time"). If possible, include two or three milestones you expect.